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  « Songs of old » gives traditional stories a new twist with a contemporary jazz setting that is as fresh as the morals of the tales. Like Emily Allison, who grew up singing her father’s English nursery rhymes, most of the poems (Blake, Lear), stories and anecdotes have their roots in Britain. In turn dark, ironic, naive or moving, Emily’s compositions echo lyrics that illustrate all shades of human nature, from purest virtue to blackest vice.
  
  The sextet (accompanied by a string quartet on four tracks) is composed of young jazz musicians from Belgium, France and Luxembourg.
  
  
  Emily Allison (vocals, compositions, arrangements)
  Sylvain Debaisieux (tenor sax)
  Guillaume Vierset (guitar)
  David Thomaere (piano, keyboards)
  Boris Schmidt (bass, double bass)
  Paul Berne (drums)
  
  In Praise of Folly, string 4tet
  Margaret Hermant, violin
  Maia Frankowski, violin
  Nicole Miller, Viola
  Annemie Osborne, Cello
  
  Brussels Singers (Backing vocals)
  Constance De Keyser, Anu Junnonen, Leander Moens, Boris Schmidt, Célia Tranchand, François Vaiana
  
  Produced by Emily Allison
  Recorded at Studio Pyramide in 2018, Berseel, Belgium
  Engineered, mixed and mastered by Vincent Debast
  Artistic Director, Thomas Mayade
  
  Design and photography by Clément Vallery
  Artwork by PARVATI
  
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